more careful than ever before so we will be home waiting for the election results. >> dana: i'm have no doubt that we will keep in touch with you and see what happens on tuesday. my best to you both and thank you for setting such a great example. thank you for joining us everyone. i am dana perino. we will see you on "the five in just a few hours. >> bill: a guess, we'll see you shortly. >> with your help, your devotion and your drive, we are going to keep on working, we are going to keep on fighting and we will keep on winning, winning, winning. >> dana>> bill: i'm bill hemmer, welcome. at the moment the president is giving a speech in lancaster county. second stop of the day.

so one day, one state, three stops. joe biden meanwhile leads by about five points in the real clear pulling average, but hillary clinton had a similar lead at this point in 2016 and lost it by 44,000 votes. the former vp is not on the trail today but one week and one day until the election and so far more than 61 million americans have already cast their ballots. we will take it to the board in a moment and showing how it breaks down the first back to pennsylvania where we listen to the president at this hour. >> president trump: when they say big joe, that doesn't work. but that guy is big. thank you very much, great job you're doing. he said no, sir, we are here for -- and i felt so safe, these tough guys, they are sitting on these harleys mostly, i guess? that was never my deal, okay? i like at the limousine better, i don't know why. but you know, i never felt

safer. there was a tremendous love that we had right from the beginning. right? four years ago right from the beginning and it stayed that way, too. we are with them all the way. we got the greatest economy in history and we are doing it again. we increased middle-class family income over $6,000 more than five times the gains in all eight years under the previous administration. african-american unemployment, hispanic-american unemployment, asian-american unemployment. unemployment for young people that didn't have a high school education. they didn't have a diploma, they had a diploma. they had a diploma from mit where they were first in their class it does make any difference. women did so great. women. women did great. they all reached the lowest levels ever recorded since april, we created a record

11.4 million jobs and under my leadership we achieved the most secure border in u.s. history. it's beautiful. walls work. don't they? remember? they said the wall is obsolete. i said the while it's not obsolete and the wheel is not obsolete. my opponents would eliminate u.s. borders by implementing nationwide catch and release and i actually heard he said, we want to take down the wall. do you believe this? take down the wall. we will never let that happen. we have to win this election. this is the most important. they want to take down the wall. his plan -- i don't think border patrol would let him. you want to know the truth? i think border patrol would save mr. president, we are not letting you get anywhere near this wall. his plan would also make every community into a sanctuary city

for violent criminals. the biden/harris -- how do you like harris? the biden-harris plan would also increase refugees 700%. this was the manifesto that was agreed to with crazy bernie and biden. so biden and crazy bernie agreed to the manifesto. we called it the manifesto. 7% increase, the most dangerous places in the world, it would come in. i had a band and i was criticized for the band. i said if a country hates us and the people hate us and they want to do bad things for us than we will have the band. everybody criticize me but i want in the united states of america. and now, we don't let them in. if it's okay by the great people of pennsylvania, we don't let them into our country. we want people that will love us and work with us and be a great

help to us. that's what we want to. so we have a band. it was very controversial when i put it in but it all you have to do is look what happened the other day in paris and you will see, it's not so controversial anymore. people are very happy that we have it and we keep a lot of very bad people out of our country. and nobody else would do that. nobody else would do that, chris. i guarantee you of that. nobody else would do it. they pledged to terminate all national security travel plans. opening the floodgates to radical islamic terrorism. no thank you. i'm keeping the terrorists, jihadists and violent extremis extremists, those terrible extremists. come out of our country. if that's okay. we invested $2.5 trillion in the u.s. military and by the way, all made in the usa. we have the greatest equipment, the greatest missiles.

we have the greatest rockets in the greatest jet fighter planes, at 35. we have the greatest agreement anywhere in the world and our nuclear nuclear arsenal is totally rebuilt or knew. i hope to god we never have to use this equipment but by having it it's less likely we will have to use it and that's just the way it is. but we have the greatest -- when i came in a highly overrated general, one of the most highly overrated generals there are said, sir. we don't have any ammunition. because we could've had a conflict at the beginning as you remember. he said sir, we don't have any ammunition. i said no president should ever have to hear that again. now we have so much ammunition, you won't believe how much ammunition. we also pass va choice nva accountability which everyone said was impossible. exactly one year ago today we killed the leader of isis, al baghdadi. and we took out the world's top

terrorist. he's dead. killed a lot of people. i withdrew from the last administrations disastrous iran nuclear deal, $150 billion. 1.8 billion in cash, how about that? that's a lot of cash. nobody's ever heard of such a thing. 1.8 billion, five plane loads of cash. i recognize the true capital of israel and opened the american embassy in jerusalem. every president for decades, they campaigned on that. every president, look at that. every president for decades campaigned and said it's not so easy to do but i did it. instead of -- and i got the building built. i got it built for a tiny, tiny fraction of what it was supposed

to cost. instead of never-ending wars we are forging peace in the middle east. you saw what just happened. you saw what just happened. sudan yesterday, sudan, uae, united arab emirates, bahrain, and we have them stocked up, stacked up, they want to come in. and we did it the exact reverse as i've been trying to do for 40 years. i said that one doesn't work. and it's all working out very well and there's no blood in the sand and they want to come in. i'm a vote for republicans is a vote for the american dream. it's very simple. it's a vote for the american dream. you know the republican party as the party of abraham lincoln. i always say, you know when they start saying this or that, i say no. it's very easy to be presidential. i can be more presidential than any president in history with the possible exception of

abraham lincoln when he is wearing the hat. actually, doing this is much tougher than being president. doing what i do is much tougher and if i was presidential, perfectly presidential it would be about three people like obama had the other day. three people. in conclusion over the next four years we will make america into the manufacturing superpower of the world and we will end our reliance on china which has already begun. [cheers and applause] we will hire more police, increase penalties for assault on law enforcement and we will ban deadly sanctuary cities. we will uphold religious liberty, free speech and the right to keep and bear arms. second amendment. second amendment. we will end surprise medical

billing, require price transparency, the biggest thing is price transparency. you will see. he goes into effect, already signed january 1st. biggest decrease in history. wait till you see that when it kicks in. and we will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions, always. we bolster the radical indoctrination of our students and restore patriotic education to our students. we will teach our children to love our country, honor our history and always respect our great american flag. always. and we will live by the timeless words of our national motto, in

god we trust. for years you had a president to apologize for america and now you have a president who is standing up for america and standing up for the great people of pennsylvania. for the last four years, you have seen me fight for you and now i am relying on you to deliver a historic victory for our country, bigger than even four years ago. by the way. pennsylvania is known as a very late voting, which is good at, which is fine. very late voting like election day. very unusual actually but i understand it. you want to make sure your vote is counted, you don't want the ballot hoax. because you know they throw away ballots. if it has a name trump on it,

boom. they printed ballots, i think 25,000 were printed for a certain state and it was missing one little thing. the name trump. so a lot of things happen. but pennsylvania is smart, you vote late. who has voted? raise your hand? who's going to vote? [cheers and applause] this is going to be, and i'm glad you saw the last debate. you know, did you hear the number one thing on google was how do i change my vote? did you know that? how do i change my vote. something like a hashtag -- how do i change my vote. they watch the debate. remember i wanted that debate moved way up because a lot of people voted by this crazy ballot tale. wait until you see the mess that thing is going to be. even in your state, they can count them after the election is over, this is a major essay. they want to count them.

so they don't want poll watchers, they want to be able to count votes after the election is over. what does that mean, the whole country is going to wait? so we will see how it all ends up, it's all in court and it's all a hoax. let me tell you something, the democrats know how crooked it is. they know. then they talk about companies not for freedom. our president is not for freedom. but he's not looking for an easy transition for safe transition. what about the transition that i had where he spied on my campaign and you tried to take down the president of the united states? that didn't work out too well. they want a friendly transition. but you know the only problem is, look at the transition they gave us? they fought us tooth and nail, for years. russia, russia. 48 million spent on mueller, a black hole hoax.

so no collusion, $48 million. now, they want a friendly, friendly -- first of all, here's the main thing. let's not lose on that we don't have to worry about it. [cheers and applause] let's just win. we won't lose so there's nothing to talk about it, let's leave it that way. no, we want everything to be done properly and we want everything to be done absolutely by the book and we want to go absolutely by our great constitution. but you know what, when they start talking about this friendly, wonderful transition and then you see what they put us through? it's really very hypocritical. on november 3rd we must finish the job and it drain that very deep and very nasty swamp once and for all. so get your friends, get your family. get your neighbors and get your coworkers, even get your boss. say boss, i want out. get out and vote.

the most important election ever. i really believe that. if you would have told me i was going to say that two years ago or three years ago, four years ago i would have not believed it. from erie to easton, pittsburgh to harrisburg and from lebanon to right here in lancaster. we stand on the shoulders of pennsylvania patriots who gave their blood, sweat and tears for this beloved nation. this is the state where founding fathers declared american independence. think of it, what we did. think of pennsylvania, think of it relative to our country. so much has happened, so many important events. it's where the army weathered the brutal winter at valley forge, where general george washington -- don't worry, we will not be taking down the washington monument. cancel culture.

congressman, there will be no cancel culture. but can you believe that? they actually had a commission. if the d.c. mayor, one of the recommendations is, lincoln, jefferson, washington memorials, let's take them out. and they didn't like mount rushmore in there. let's blow it right up. and that's ten years in prison. it's amazing how all that stopped. our union was saved by the great heroes are gettysburg. never fight uphill.

he heard they were fighting uphill. they fought up here, and this place is working the railroads, and the nation in the world, and we were making it far greater in this nation would be greater than it ever was. and i so believe that. proud citizens like you help build the country and we are returning power to you the american people. that's what's happening.

they don't like that in washington. with your help, your devotion, we are one movement, one family, and one glorious nation under god. and the incredible people of pennsylvania, they have made american people america powerful again. we have made america wealthy again, you're a stock blockage your 401(k). we have made america proud aga again. we have made america safe again. we will make america great aga

again. thank you. >> bill: is so at 3:18 p.m. east coast time, here we go. 90 minutes there in pennsylvan pennsylvania. jacqui heinrich he is further down the road in pennsylvania. good afternoon john, where are you and what happened? >> the president and he is

campaigning at a frenetic pace in these last eight days. the president believes here in pennsylvania, at the very end of last thursday's debate they said he wanted to transition away from oil. and about west virginia in 2016 what about the eagle ford shale in texas? what about people in north dakota, parts of louisiana where they have tracking going on, when joe biden was voting

for trade agreements like nafta, those manufacturing jobs are gone. they have to go to something else the president during the first part of his administration, and it helps the second administration to prove that they can bring those jobs back. the one point where joe biden continues to make inroads is on the handling of coronavirus. the president insisting that after november the 3rd, coronavirus is going to go away in terms of public discourse. about five members of the vice president stuff can be down with coronavirus and mark meadows, the chief of staff saying yesterday that you can't contain the virus, you have to move toward therapeutics and vaccines. the biting campaigning is not

going to capitalize on that. >> bill: we are on stop comic standby for the next event, stop number three. jacqui heinrich has the latest on the biting camp which has had a lid on its operation they don't know if they took in money from his sons overseas deals, and in last week's debate, he's never taken of penny from a foreign source in his life. and he doesn't know where he comes from.

putin is trying very hard to spread disinformation about joe biden. >> he spoke to lev parnas, a businessman who was indicted last year on campaign finance charges. to dig up damaging information, the breeze my founder who is being pursued by ukrainian authorities and corruption charges offered giuliani the materials through an associate asking for help generating favor with the justice department in exchange. he claims that russian security services also have the materials and today the biden campaign told fox news in addition to rudy juliana's established collaboration with russian agents currently sanctioned by the united states, his anti-biden efforts have gone on the record implementing russian intelligence in the specific attack. we know who is behind this and it is the same hostile foreign power his assistant has repeatedly courted while giving

him impunity for bouncing them. he claims that he got this materials from the hard drive of a computer repair man here in delaware. biden did not acknowledge any of these campaign stops in pennsylvania on saturday, including fracking. nice to see you both and good afternoon to you. they have been watching the rally so far today, and that's an impression of the closing argument of sorts. what do you think? >> it's remarkable. donald trump has given three rallies in a single day, he's going to be talking for four plus hours today.

reaching out to pennsylvania voters and it joe biden is holed up in his basement. it is a stark contrast, and and he is gambling that he can't see the stage to donald trump in that battle works in his favor. if it works, it's an act of genius. and if donald trump holds this out, democrats will hold back and that's the greatest political debacle in modern ti time. >> for the record as of 3:25 p.m. east coast time, peter doocy tells me, tomorrow is georgia. wednesday is tbd, thursday is

florida. will that get it done? >> following the same old playbook will not get it done. i think democrats have a huge early vote advantage that i think the president will probably do well on election day. but here's the thing. millions of americans have already voted. that's in the lead up when like pennsylvania. if this is the president's closing argument, let him get out there more. the biden campaign should want to present it out there more if the cyst's closing argument, he didn't care much about covid which continues to be the

biggest issue. who care about the issue. mostly this contrast favors the president, we saw joe biden saying in the debate the other night, we are heading into a dark winter. donald trump is saying no, we are not heading into a dark winter, we are rounding the turn. people want optimism, people want hope. no one campaigns on the campaign thing of, if i promise you a

dark winter and win. it's hopeful optimism that we can beat the virus, we can get back to life as normal. joe biden is probably better off in his basement because this talk about a dark winter won't help him win. >> go ahead quickly. >> we all have -- we want to feel optimistic. i know mark and i would rather be on site with you right now there's got to be a trust in our leadership, so to have a bit of denial in where we are and the

steps that we need to take now, that's what is working against the president, and i'm surprised he's not doing more to take care of that. to our viewers at home has the map from 2016 in pennsylvania and here's where the president has been so far today. he went to lehigh. philadelphia is here, we were just watching in lancaster county pennsylvania. a fair amount in both places and then he goes to the role part of the state, central pennsylvania. not as many votes for the percentage which is much higher there in that particular part of pennsylvania. tomorrow though, you are going to go to michigan, and that will hit this location and that's

where he ends his day in nebraska. he's going to douglas county, that's a home of omaha. nebraska splits its electoral votes in maine, i could show you that a little bit here. the main congressional was won by president trump four years ago, cd2 is what it is in omaha. it's a tour de force and on a political scene, they both have their calculations of whether or not their strategy is a winning

message for 2,020 which is an extraordinary year unto itself. of all the registered voters, you are almost at 43%. in that early vote is a big de deal. andy mccarthy will weigh in on what will be what we believe is just a spirit by prime time tonight. what could be some of the first cases, and we will fly back over to the bench.

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>> bill: here we go around the

horn, vice president pence arriving in minnesota, the home of mr. robert zimmerman. some of the vice president aids have taste tested positive, and meanwhile take it to the east coast, joe biden now in a wilmington, delaware. is that right? is that wilmington? check that, it's chester, pennsylvania. so the southeast corner about a 45 minute drive from his home in wilmington so this is an event. we weren't quite sure was going to happen or not. it was on the agenda as of maybe an hour ago. there is a chance that justice barrett, and fox news contributor, andy, how are you doing? justice barrett codes rule on what in the early days on the

bench? >> there is been a challenge to the pennsylvania law as it was amended by the supreme court of pennsylvania. the court in the last ten days or so refused to hear the case on a four floor vote. what was issued then was to stay the court's ruling, changing the election law. now the parties are back in court because what they are asking is just for a ruling on the merit that what the court did violated the law in the constitution and that could come up. they are imploring the court to decide the case before the election and i happen to think it's very important that they do that. if they decide before the election, it's just that they are setting the rules under which the election will proceed. i'm worried if they wait for chaos after the election it will look like the court is choosing the president. >> bill: and you want clarity.

let me show you the calendar. second debate never happened, we are on the 26th of october here, obviously election day as the late eight days away. but let me show you a different calendar. these are ver various states, ny of knowing what happened in the state eight days from now but humans in pennsylvania. as the law stands right now if you mail in a valid as a 5:00 on election day that's supposed to count and yet they added up on friday the 6th of november and there are similar laws in iowa, minnesota, nevada, north carolina and the state of ohio. so what do you see it play legally here? if you have a contested result in one of those battleground states? >> they are asking for trouble here because congress has set by statute a single election day which is november 3rd.

if you encouraged accounting to go on beyond november 3rd, while the results are being reported by the national media, it's an invitation to all kinds of shenanigans and it becomes worse as they have in pennsylvania if you can't prove a ballot was postmarked before election day. so you have the prospect of people voting after election day when the results being reported all over the country, even though the election was supposed to have been over on novembe november 3rd and that obviously infectaffects the integrity of e results and invites about a fraudulent activity. >> bill: we could put other states on the calendar but we chose these because we have considered them the margin of

error. the laws say you have to have it in by election day but the counting of the issue. you have to have a postmark on a mail-in ballot. but that all goes back to election day. the point is you may have to deem what is voter intent? is the postmark? did the stamp match up? signature match up? all of that would be or could be contested if you really have a razor-thin margin for the outcome. >> and also who gets to decide, the constitution says these rules are supposed to be set by the state legislatures and not the state court.

and that's when we got to the election. what does state law say? not what does the state supreme court say, what does the state law say? >> and that's what the rest of the supreme court should decide. >> we will follow it together. awaiting the president's third rally of the day, set to speak next hour. also keeping tabs on some key senate races, including the one involving i was joni ernst. we will talk about that and some keys and it concerns of that balance of power games now when senator ernst joins me live right after this. come on back. can now save $3000 dollars a year with the va streamline refi.

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>> bill: much less attention but arguably as important, republicans who currently hold 53 seats. from iowa, senator joni ernst is locked in a tough battle with her challenger teresa greenfield. senator ernst joins me now live and senator, good afternoon to you. >> thanks so much. how do you think this breaks in iowa and what is the consideration? is it farmers, the economy or is it covid? >> the choice is clear in iowa, bill. if iowa voters wished to remain a strong and vibrant state and they believe in the values that made our nation great, they will be supporting me. and those that want to roll back the second amendment gun rights,

they will be supporting joe biden and my opponent teresa greenfield. jobs in the economy supporting a culture, all of those things are going to be important. does he help you, do you help him? >> there are certain areas where i will help pull the presidents, and there are certain areas where he will out pull me as well. but i don't really pay attention to those polls, i pay attention to people on the ground. it's a great level of energy and enthusiasm, the president and a great term of course in the

senate, keeping the senate red. we won't know until the night of november 3rd how are they reacting iowa never fully shuts down. those farmers in the egg industry are able to move about fear freely, do their business, very important. i once typically number one, they are concerned about the economy and that means we can

move forward to safely and responsibly through covid but we absolutely must get people back to work. >> bill: the president of won iowa by nine points in 2016. joe biden's primary performance i think he finished fourth in the democratic congress. >> i think you see some skewed polling out there, but again the energy that you see on the ground is very much behind president trump. he has been very supportive of the renewable fuel standard, where the presidential candidate, where the they work year-round. they are considered to be the most anti-ethanol and anti-renewable fuels on tickets and years. i think the american farmer will be behind president trump and he has really sealed the deal on a

phenomenal trade agreements. been very friendly to the rfs. >> if you are right, it's very interesting. the battle of china over trade came out of expense to american farmers and you are making the case today that they are now behind him. >> absolutely bill. i had one of my farmers at the end of the former roundtables, and he said i get why president trump is doing this. the farmers are hurting as we work to these negotiations but he said what i don't get is why we don't have a president that would stand up for us before this. they are behind president trump, and he has taken some hard knocks and we are in a directo directory. >> we will see how it goes and find out in a week or so. $113 million have been spent between the race. >> turning >> joni ernst.com, thank you. >> bill: thank you for being

here. they are up hundreds of points, we are checking that and also major theme parks in california including disney could be closed until next year. in a moment, my eye guess that is a legal action is not off the table and they want to sue california. will they do it? we will find out next. >> i call on governor newsom to come to anaheim and see for himself the devastation this is causing so many working families. ♪ helping thousands of veterans save thousands of dollars by refinancing at today's record low mortgage rates. with newday's va streamline refi, there's no appraisal, no income verification and no out of pocket costs. let newday help you use your va benefits to save $250 a month, that's $3000 a year. one call is all it takes.

>> bill: joe biden into the microphone. this is the southeastern corner. >> trump said that it wasn't really going out. he suggested that doctors were inflating the numbers. get this.

because doctors get more money. what in the hell is the matter with this man? thousands of doctors and nurses have given their lives trying to save lives. and he's saying the reason that they are talking about testing is that they want to make more money. mr. president, more than 1,000 health care workers have lost their lives fighting covid. doctors, nurses. they are not profiting. they are dying. and remember, during the debate, if you want to call it that, during the debate, trump said that we are learning to live with this covid. no. we have learned to die with th this. folks, this has got to end. we can, in fact, and this cris crisis. if you would only get together with the house and senate, work out a compromise on the spending

bills that are out there. be able to safely open up our schools. it will cost $200 billion to do it, but it is worth doing it. we should do if your lower class sizes, ventilation, sanitation. the business is to be able to be open. if we provide the same kind of help, which we said we would do. there is so much more to do. testing. we should be pouring billions of dollars into determining how we get a rapid testing. rapid testing. so you know within hours whether or not the test is negative or positive. many places, you have to have to wait sometimes up to six or seven days. he is not doing what needs to be done. look, folks, i promise you this. i'm never going to give up. you know, mr. president, you have to have a little bit of shame. just a little bit of shame because people are dying.

he is a point i want to make. let me see it clearly. more people are gonna die. as many as 200,000 suggested by some. pointed out, if you just wore a mask, cap social distancing, got tested, we could save with and now in the end of the year, over 100,000 american lives. not going to give up. i don't know what we will inherit january the 21st, but at the rate going, it is not good. and by the way, i am happy to take some questions from the press, but let me make it clear. i'm not shutting down oil fiel fields. i'm not eliminating fracking. i'm investing in clean energy, and we are going to make sure we don't continue to subsidize outcomes -- they get somewhere between $25,000,000,000.40 billion in

subsidies. the money you should go in to make sure we keep doing a lot of other things. with that, why don't i take -- yes, sir. >> a relatively light schedule. do you know how much you will be traveling? >> candidate biden: i'm going to wisconsin, georgia. there's a lot that we've been doing as well in terms of being online and -- excuse me, everything from fund-raising efforts to making sure that we meet next day with a group of leaders in the democratic party, laying out where we are going to go. there has not been a day that hasn't been a 12 hour day yet. >> states like -- traveling to iowa --

>> candidate biden: look. you know me. i just want to make sure that we can turn every vote possible. that's why we are here, and you know that blue wall is going to have to be established. by the grace of god, i am going to win pennsylvania. it's a big deal to me, personally as well as politically. i think we are going to win michigan, wisconsin, minnesota. i think we have a fighting chance in ohio. fighting chance in north carolina. fighting chance and iowa. so, 6 million individual voters, average contributions, $49, we are able to compete. like we haven't been able to compete before and all of these different states. so we are going to continue to travel, but the big difference between us and the reason that it looks like this, we are not

putting on super-spreader's. we are doing what we are doing here. everybody is wearing a mask. trying the best we can to be socially distance, and our press conferences as well. it's important to be responsib responsible. >> you will look at how long to serve on the court -- >> candidate biden: no, no. there is a question about whether or not -- it's a lifetime approval. i am not going to change that. the possibility of going from one court to another court. but i have made no judgment. i have made no judgment -- a group of scholars have a number of ideas of how we should proceed from this time on. and that is what we are going to be doing.